Average Web Page Approaches 1MB 319
MrSeb writes "According to new research from HTTP Archive, which regularly scans the internet's most popular destinations, the average size of a single web page is now 965 kilobytes, up more than 30% from last year's average of 702KB. This rapid growth is fairly normal for the internet — the average web page was 14KB in 1995, 93KB by 2003, and 300KB in 2008 — but by burrowing a little deeper into HTTP Archive's recent data, we can discern some interesting trends. Between 2010 and 2011, the average amount of Flash content downloaded stayed exactly the same — 90KB — but JavaScript experienced massive growth from 113KB to 172KB. The amount of HTML, CSS, and images on websites also showed a significant increase year over year. There is absolutely no doubt that these trends are attributable to the death throes of Flash and emergence of HTML5 and its open web cohorts." If you have a personal home page, how big is it?
How Big? (Score:5, Funny)
That's rather personal.
Size Doesn't Matter (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Ad Content (Score:5, Funny)
90KB of Flash (Score:4, Funny)
That's still too much flash for me
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Re:Hallelujah (Score:4, Funny)
Re:Coded mine in notepad (Score:2, Funny)
CSS is for prima donnas and Flash is for artistes. PHP is for chatterboxes and Perl is for psychics. Javascript is for the clinically insane, and Ruby is for hipsters. Drupal is for geeks and Ajax is for nerds.
I'll stick to plain-jane HTML, thanks.
"...and plain-jane HTML is for bigger hipsters than Ruby users". Understood. Thanks.
Re:Hallelujah (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Hallelujah (Score:2, Funny)
If you have a personal home page, how big is it?
My web page is frickin' HUGE!!!!1 to help compensate for my tiny penis.
1:1 scale representation of my penis:
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